About Revels Book

Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind, by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer

In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen after dress rehearsal for The Christmas Revels, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser–a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose–and almost as a joke–Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found.

Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues who’d been keeping similar experiences secret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous or crazy.

Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silence imposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about these and countless other “inexplicable” phenomena. From Sigmund Freud’s writings on telepathy to secret CIA experiments on remote viewing, from leading-edge neuroscience to the strange world of quantum physics, Dr. Mayer reveals a wealth of credible and fascinating research into the realm where the mind seems to trump the laws of nature.

She does not ask us to believe. Rather she brings us a book of profound intrigue and optimism, with far-reaching implications not just for scientific inquiry but also for the ways we go about living in the world.

Bantam Books 308 pages including forwards by Freeman Dyson and Carol Gilligan.

Click Here to see Lisby talk about the events that led her to write Extraordinary Knowing.

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Revels 20 — Celebrating Two Decades of the California Revels

A feast of music! Live performances from the first two decades of The Christmas Revels in Oakland. Thirty two selections include Masters in This Hall, Rorate, Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow, The Shortest Day, Sussex Mummer’s Carol and 26 others.

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About Revels — A Collection of Essays

The perfect book to give Revels lovers and those who want to know more about Revels —

$10.00

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Compiled & edited by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer with one-stroke brushwork by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Featuring California Revels Adult and Children’s Chorus Members

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Join California Revels with piper Jerry O'Sullivan, fiddler Liz Carroll, Irish singer Shay Black, storyteller and harper Patrick Ball, harpist Cheryl Ann Fulton and Distant Oaks, for a rousing Christmas in an Irish Castle. We take you to the Great Hall of the bold Brian O'Rourke, where grand Christmas festivities are underway: food and drink for all, dancing, carousing and reveling. Hear the magical story of St. Patrick and The Deer's Cry set to one of Revels’ favorite tunes, The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance; holiday carols like The Holly and the Ivy and Drive the Cold Winter Away; a wild stick dance by Morris men to the tune King of the Fairies; The Sussex Mummers Carol with uilleann pipes, drums and harp, and world class performances of popular Irish jigs and reels. Join us as we welcome the return of light from darkness!